Word: rubberize
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...vote on Question One would also ban cruel, painful traps that catch an animal by gripping any part of it rather than by confining it whole, as a cage does. Most of the traps that would be banned are steel-jaw and rubber-jaw leghold traps, both of which crush the limbs of animals they catch. Leghold traps pose a serious danger to household pets as well as the animals trappers mean to catch. "For every target animal, there are two to three untargeted animals that are trapped," says Aaron Medlock, legislative policy analyst for the Humane Society...
Although opponents of Question One claim that rubber-jaw traps do not cause injury, when a dog named Cindy was caught in three such traps for four days, her injuries were so severe that she was put to sleep. To escape the traps, Cindy had tried to chew off her paws. "She was crying as she did it from the pain," says Joy Bannister, the Fall River dog officer who found...
...this point, one has to understand that the primary responsibility of the Palestinian police is not to serve as agents of the Israeli government within Palestinian territory, but to protect civilians and Palestinian public and private property. The Palestinian police faced an old enemy who was shooting fatal rubber bullets at their own population. A response at that moment was eminent, but it was the Palestinian police who in fact helped end violence after all. As for the Palestinian threat of "arms build-up" against countries who want to stop "unconventional warfare," one can only guess what this means. Forty...
...when the barrels of those very guns were directed against the Israelis themselves last week. A Palestinian witness, confirmed by both The New York Times and The Washington Post, admitted that the Palestinian security forces fired live ammunition upon Israeli soldiers after seeing the Israelis disperse violent protesters with rubber bullets and tear...
...post-Nirvana crowd can embrace. His playing is not indulgent--rarely will he take an all-out, all-eyes-on-me solo--but it is attention grabbing nonetheless. Like Hendrix, he can coax strange sounds from his guitar: metallic rasps, hip-hop-like scratches, notes that snap back like rubber. And yet, like U2's the Edge and R.E.M.'s Buck, he works in tightly focused riffs and bursts...